Ethiopian Muslims Global Council ask Muslim Communities and Masjid Imams all over the World to make special prayer.
We Ethiopian Muslims are writing to bring to your attention the plight of Ethiopian
Muslims. Ethiopia (known in the time of Rasul-Alllah (saw) as Habesha) is the land of the first
Hijira, land of Luqmanel Hakeem, Bilal ibnu Rabaah, Ummu Aymen and others. The country that
once sheltered oppressed Muslims has long been turned oppressor to the same people to the
extent the world forget our existence. As a matter of fact, we are more than 50% of the
population of the country, however we are denied to freely practice, and reflect our Islamic
identity and all in all denied representation in any affairs of our country.
Currently, the government of Ethiopia is leading a campaign in collaboration with the
handpicked so called “Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs” to indoctrinate all Muslims in the
country with the ideology of a sect called "Abdulah Al-harari’s Ahbash” and putting “Ahbash” in
charge of Islamic affairs at gun point. Muslims in the country and diaspora rose against forceful
indoctrination of this heretic group, the ahbash, and government interference in religious affair
as a violation of constitution of the country. Extremely peaceful protest has been going on for
more than 8 months in the capital, Addis Ababa, spread throughout the country and the
diaspora communities demanding simple and basic constitutional and universal rights of
Ethiopian Muslims.
In response to this exemplary peaceful protest, dubbed by some media outlets as an
extremely peaceful struggle never witnessed any where in the world, even than the one followed
by M. Ghandi and M. Luther King (junior), such protest has been taking place only in Masjids
after Juma’a prayers. Ironically, rather than positively answering the simple demands tabled by
the people, the government opted for brutally cracking-down on peaceful protesters, to the
extent of breaking into mesjids, beating up innocent worshipers, torturing, killing and mass
arrest, which intensified from the beginning of Ramadan. Furthermore, all Ramadan programs
such as Taraweeh prayer, handing out zakatulitr and sadaqa has been completely disrupted and
left the needy unattended. Currently the popularly elected 13 out of 17 Committees, Muslim
scholars, preachers, imams and other Muslims are imprisoned, continuously being tortured and
falsely accused of ‘extremism’ for nothing but for peacefully demanding for respect of the
constitutional rights.
Dear Muslim brothers and sisters-in-Islam, we need you to hear our voice of appeal and
echo our demands so that we join hands and cry to Allah together to end the oppression of
Muslims. We request you in the name of Allah to make Qunut Dua’a after every Terawih and
Tahajud for Ethiopian Muslims and other oppressed fellows all over the world. Some countries
like Saudi Arabia have already started making dua’a for us and we Hope Allah will find some
pious Muslims in these ummah to accept our dua’a. May Allah grant you the best reward for
showing solidarity to your brethren Ethiopian Muslims?
Ethiopian Muslims Global Council
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